Word: vacuous
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...plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
...plea for mercy and be submerged in a crisis that would make the turmoil over Viet Nam seem trivial. Nixon's enemies were about to be handed the weapon they had been seeking. In the tornado of suspicion about to overwhelm us, my appeal to idealism would sound vacuous if not cynical. The outcome of the recent election might well be reversed; there was likely to be a battle to the death...
Skocpol, now a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, called the report this week "a shameful document: evasive, vacuous and illogical...
...absolutely serious manner in which the authors go about propounding the most pointless ideas leads to pity for lives wasted in such vacuous banality...
...Ohio State are using various courses, often with hefty supplements. The televised segment, after all, is intended less as a self-contained course than as a lively and visually far-ranging substitute for a droning professor. Quality varies. Says Iowa's Cantor: "At its worst, it is vacuous. But at its best, difficult material is portrayed very graphically." A segment on sensory psychology is literally a cliffhanger: a man uses his tactile sense to claw his way to safety while climbing. Afterward, diagrams with flashing electronic lines show how impulses speed along the nerve path from finger to brain...